 | Andrew Bell (of Southampton) - 1863 - 386 sider
...among the commonalty. Thus Scott's " Last Minstrel" whiningly tells how he was fain, at last, "To tune, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear." Latterly, the minstrels, troubadours, &c. added less laudable employment to their own ostensible calling... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1864 - 680 sider
...art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door ; And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp, a king had loved to hear. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The minstrel gazed with... | |
 | John Hugh Hawley - 1865 - 166 sider
...art a crime. A wandering harper, scorn'd and poor, He begg'd his bread from door to door ; And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a King had loved to hear. n. Hush'd is the harp — the Minstrel gone. And did he wander forth alone ? Alone in indigence and... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 sider
...art a crime. A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door ; And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp, a king had loved to hear. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed with... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 sider
...art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorn'd and poor, He begg'd his bread from door to door. And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp, a king had loved to hear. He pass'd where Newark's stately tower Ixwks out from Yarrow's birchen bower: The Minstrel gazed with... | |
 | 1867 - 674 sider
...condescended to far humbler groups of spectators, like the Wandering harper, scorned and poor, who Tuned to please a peasant's ear The harp a king had loved to hear. Perhaps it will present no unpleasing picture of times fast fadrng away if I endeavour to recal the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 sider
...art a crime. A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door ; And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. He passed where Newark's ptately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchin bower : The Minstrel gazed with... | |
 | Edward Clarke Lowe - 1868 - 186 sider
...art a crime. A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door ; And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. Scott. 22. — ISAAC ASHFORD. A NOBLE peasant, Isaac Ashford, died, Noble he was, contemning all things... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 536 sider
...art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorn'd and poor, He begg'd his bread from door to door. And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp, a king had loved to hear. He pass'd where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower: The Minstrel gazed with... | |
 | English poetry - 1869 - 328 sider
...iron time A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door ; And tunod, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. SCOTT. BRANKSOME TOWER. THE feast was over in Branksome Tower, And the Ladye had gone to her secret... | |
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Stuarts' throne; The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. 
